When Louise Godbold came forward with her story of sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, she had already been a veteran trauma specialist for nearly a decade.

But all the training in the world couldn’t have prepared her for what happened after she opened “Pandora’s box.” “Suddenly it’s public property,” Godbold told TheWrap. “And not only that, you have to keep on telling your story.”

Godbold said she experienced what she called a “re-traumatization” by the media.

“What I hadn’t been prepared for was other people’s reactions,” she said, “the minimizing the dismissing, the excusing, not believing you, she said. “It’s very good reasons why people don’t come forward.”

Godbold was a young commercial producer looking for an internship at Miramax when she said Weinstein, an acquaintance she’d met years earlier, gave her a tour of his offices in Tribeca in the early 1990s. It was then, she said, the mogul cornered her in a conference room.

“Out of nowhere he grabs my hand and puts it on his crotch,” Godbold said, “which was incredibly shocking because I’d known this man for many years and had never had any inkling that he would behave in such a way.”

Weinstein later apologized and invited her to a meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel a month later where mid-meeting, he changed into a bathrobe and asked for a massage.

“He calls me into the bedroom and he’s taken all his clothes off and he’s lying face down in the bed,” Godbold said. “Suffice to say, I did the worst shoulder massage in history and then he threw back the covers and let’s just say I could see that my shoulder massage had much more effect than I would have credited it.”

At that exact point, she said, a sense of self-preservation kicked. “I said, ‘I’ve got to go, my friend is waiting downstairs,’ and I shot out of there.” Godbold didn’t report the incident, thinking it was an isolated event by a “man who had temporarily lost his mind.”

But after the New York Times exposé hit last October and Weinstein threatened “to sue the people concerned and the journalists,” she said, “I just thought to myself, ‘No, no, no, no, no! No you don’t do that!'”

Today, Godbold is a trauma specialist and the executive director of the non-profit Echo in Los Angeles. Since coming forward, she’s been flooded with calls from other #MeToo survivors and held a special Silence Breakers workshop in July.

What happened after you published your story about Weinstein?By the time I published my blog, Harvey had already stepped down and I figured that I was writing a footnote to the whole story… The next morning I woke up and I had major media outlets calling me for interviews and just bombarding our switchboard at work. What I hadn’t really appreciated is that when you come forward and you tell your story, this is something that you’ve compartmentalized… Now suddenly it’s public property. And not only that, you have to keep on telling your story.

One of the things that you learn when you study trauma is that… every time you tell your story your cortisol [stress hormone] levels are rising again, so it’s a bit like drinking six double espressos every time you give an interview and every time you tell the story again.

Do you think as a trauma specialist you were better prepared to deal with the aftermath?I don’t think that anyone can actually prepare you for the double trauma of first of all the sexual assault and then the re-traumatization that happens in the media… What I hadn’t been prepared for was other people’s reactions… the minimizing the dismissing, the excusing, not believing you.. and it’s very good reasons why people don’t come forward. I didn’t expect to actually have worked all the way through each of those responses in the reactions of the people around me, including some dear friends, who have said, “Well, you weren’t raped, and this movement has gone too far, and you’re just making Harvey the scapegoat.”

Would you have done things differently knowing what you know today?One of the things that can’t be anticipated is what happens when you open that Pandora’s box, and knowing what I know now, I would have done a lot more processing before going on national TV… You don’t want to process this on national TV… You have that same hormone reaction as if you were in the situation again, obviously not as severe, but to go through that over and over again, you’re going to experience those swings… getting highly agitated and then feeling numb and depressed, those are all notable responses.

Harvey Weinstein was once the king of the indie film world. But the Oscar-winning producer's career and reputation have imploded since fall 2017, when scores of women stepped forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Here's a breakdown of what happened.

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The New York Times published a story revealing that Harvey Weinstein had paid financial settlements to at least eight women accusing him of sexual harassment or assault. Actress Ashley Judd is the only accuser to go on the record, accusing the mogul of assault in his hotel room. In a statement, Weinstein apologizes, vows to take a self-imposed leave of absence from his company and bizarrely declares war on the NRA.

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and other politicians donate campaign contributions they received from Weinstein to charity.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Weinstein is fired as CEO from The Weinstein Company.

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The New Yorker publishes its own piece, written by Ronan Farrow, in which three women, including Italian actress Asia Argento, accuse Weinstein of rape. Through a spokesperson, Weinstein denies any account of nonconsensual sex.

Hours after the article runs, the New York Times publishes on-the-record accusations of inappropriate behavior from Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

The AMPAS Board of Governors expels Weinstein. The Weinstein Company’s development slate falls apart, losing projects with David O. Russell and more. Release of Benedict Cumberbatch’s "The Current War" is delayed.

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Actress Alyssa Milano kicks off a cultural movement by encouraging women to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault on social media. She asks them to tag the stories #MeToo.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy vows to start an industry-wide commission to create “protections against harassment and abuse.” Frequent Weinstein collaborator and filmmaker Kevin Smith vows to donate all of his Weinstein Company residuals to Women in Film.

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The Taylor Sheridan film "Wind River," which had a successful release by the Weinstein Company in August, excises the Weinstein name from its home video and streaming releases. Principal financier Acadia Entertainment buys the film back from TWC and self-funds an awards campaign. (It doesn't land any Oscar nominations.)

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Television Academy bans Weinstein for life. The New Yorker runs a follow-up piece saying a battery of former Mossad agents and communications experts were used to silence stories of Weinstein’s impropriety for years.

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

TWC is hit with a class-action lawsuit from several of Weinstein’s accusers. The company is forced to sell its live-action "Paddington 2" to Warner Bros. to help infuse the studio with cash and keep the doors open.

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The Academy announces its “standards of conduct,” which read, in part, “The Academy is categorically opposed to any form of abuse, harassment or discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion, or nationality.”

JANUARY 1, 2018

#TimesUp is born as four female talent agents from CAA create a legal defense fund for women in the U.S. workforce to protect them from sexual harassment. The effort is announced and endorsed by contributors like Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Fox Film head Stacey Snider, Fox TV honcho Dana Walden, Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, among others.

JANUARY 7

To draw attention to the mistreatment of women in Hollywood, virtually all women attending the Golden Globes wear black.

JANUARY 8

Immediately after he wins a Golden Globe wearing a #TimesUp pin, James Franco is accused of sexual misconduct by several women. The accusations, which the actor denies, come in the middle of the Oscar nomination voting period.

JANUARY 9

Lady Bird writer-director Greta Gerwig joins Mira Sorvino, Chloe Sevigny and others in saying she would not work in the future with director Woody Allen, who had been accused of sexual assault by his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow. (He has repeatedly denied the accusation.)

JANUARY 10, 2018

Page Six reports that Weinstein and Chapman reached the terms of an eight-figure divorce settlement, with Chapman securing primary custody of the couple's two children.

JANUARY 27, 2018

The Academy emails members to reveal the process by which violations of its code of conduct can be reported.

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

“I may be a 75-year-old white male,” says Academy President John Bailey at the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon, “but I’m as gratified as any of you that the fossilized bedrock of many of Hollywood’s worst abuses [is] being jackhammered into oblivion.” (One month later, the Academy would investigate -- and then dismiss -- accusations of sexual harassment against Bailey himself.)

The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, reporting that it had less than $500,000 in cash on hand. Dallas-based Lantern Capital Partners stepped up as a stalking horse bidder prepared to buy virtually all of the company’s assets for $310 million.

Following a months-long investigation by the NYPD, Weinstein is arrested on three felony charges of rape and criminal sex act in connection with two female accusers. Weinstein pleads not guilty and released on $1 million bail pending trial.

MAY 30, 2018

Weinstein is indicted on charges of rape in the first and third degrees, as well as on charges of criminal sexual act in the first degree, as announced by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Then on June 1, Three women filed additional charges against Weinstein in a class action lawsuit, saying that Weinstein isolated the women “in an attempt to engage in unwanted sexual conduct that took many forms: flashing, groping, fondling, harassing, battering, false imprisonment, sexual assault and attempted rape, and/or completed rape.”

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JULY 2, 2018

A grand jury served Weinstein with three more sexual assault charges, an additional count of criminal sexual act in the first degree for forcing a woman to have sex with him in 2006, and two counts of predatory sexual assault. The latter charge carries a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of a life sentence. Weinstein would plead not guilty.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Weinstein made a push to have a New York judge toss out a criminal sexual assault case brought against him, saying in a filing that the Manhattan district attorney “failed to provide the Grand Jury with exculpatory evidence of the long-term, consensual, intimate relationship between Mr. Weinstein and the alleged rape victim.”

AUGUST 19, 2018

A report in the New York Times said Asia Argento paid a settlement of $380,000 to actor Jimmy Bennett after accusing her of sexually assaulting him when he was just 17. Argento denied the accusations. Rose McGowan distanced herself from Argento, and Weinstein issued a statement saying Argento displayed a “stunning level of hypocrisy.” “The sheer duplicity of her conduct is quite extraordinary and should demonstrate to everyone how poorly the allegations against Mr. Weinstein were actually vetted and accordingly, cause all of us to pause and allow due process to prevail, not condemnation by fundamental dishonesty,” the statement continued.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Former NBC News producer Richard McHugh said that people at “the very highest levels of NBC” worked to quash Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein story that eventually published in The New Yorker. Then on Sept. 3, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack sent an internal memo saying that after eight months, Farrow's reporting “did not have a single victim or witness willing to go on the record.” Farrow disputed the memo and said NBC's list of sources was incomplete.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The U.S. Attorney’s office in New York opened an investigation into Weinstein’s involvement with the private spy firm Black Cube to see if he violated any federal wire fraud laws. Weinstein had hired Black Cube to gather information on those accusing him of sexual assault.

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Harvey Weinstein was once the king of the indie film world. But the Oscar-winning producer's career and reputation have imploded since fall 2017, when scores of women stepped forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Here's a breakdown of what happened.